Guns: Barrett dissented when the court upheld a decision restricting the Second Amendment rights of a felon convicted of mail fraud. Replacing RBG: Trump's short list begins with these five women (and one man)ĭuring her three years on the appeals court, Barrett has ruled in cases involving civil and consumer rights, guns, race and immigration. Court of Appeals would serve her equally well as a nominee for the nation's highest court," he said. "The same impressive intellect, character and temperament that made Professor Barrett a successful nominee for the U.S. John Jenkins, Notre Dame's president, praised Barrett in a statement Saturday. She also clerked for Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
They are the parents of seven children, including two from Haiti and one with special needs.īarrett spent two decades as a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, from which she holds her law degree. attorney in the Northern District of Indiana.
The Indiana resident's husband, Jesse, is a lawyer and a former assistant U.S. But a letter Barrett and more than 300 academics signed said the accommodation “changes nothing of moral substance and fails to remove the assault on religious liberty.” Religiously-affiliated charities and universities were allowed to shift the cost on to their health insurance provider. She also criticized the Obama administration’s method for giving employees of religious-affiliated organizations access to birth control without having the institutions pay for it. More: Supreme Court once again will decide fate of Affordable Care Act That law is coming before the court again in November, with Texas leading a group of states seeking to strike it down. Roberts creatively interpreted as a tax the law’s penalty on those who don’t buy insurance, allowing the court to uphold the constitutionality of the law, she said. Barrett wrote in 2017 that Chief Justice John Roberts pushed the Affordable Care Act beyond its plausible meaning in order to save it.
0 kommentar(er)
